Kitemark for Child Safety Online Software - Scheme Supporters

Scheme Background

The Home Office Hi Tech Crime Team and Ofcom sponsored the development of a standard and Kitemark scheme for internet service providers and software products, with the objective of protecting children from undesirable features of internet technology.

The project was a collaboration involving BSI as the UK's National Standards Body, the Home Office, Ofcom, and representatives of ISPs and application developers to raise the standard of filtering, monitoring and blocking applications for the UK market.

Kitemark Child Safety Online Scheme Supporters:

8e6 Technologies

Adaptive Mobile

AOL

BASDA

BBC Online

BBFC

Becta Internet Taskforce

Bluecoat

Borderware

Brightfilter

BSI (British Standards Institution)

Cabinet Office

Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility

Chat Moderators

Childnet International

Commtouch

Crisp Thinking

Dubit

Fortinet

F-Secure Corporation

Guardian Software

Home Office

IBM

Independent Committee for the Supervision of Standards of Telephone Information Services (ICSTIS)

Interactive Media in Retail Group

Internet Content Association

Internet Watch Foundation

Intertek

ISPA

Learning and Teaching Scotland

Lightspeed Systems

McAfee

Media Education

Message Labs

Microsoft

Mobile Broadband Group

NAI

National Childrens Home Taskforce

National Computing Centre

Netintelligence

Netsweeper

NTL

Ofcom

Pacsis

Public Sector Forums

Rulespace

Secure Computing

SmoothWall

Solarsoft Ltd

Sophos

StreamShield

Surfpatrol

Symantec

THUS Plc

t-Scheme

Virgin Media

Wanadoo

Websense

Wise Kids

Yahoo

Yousurf

Zentec Solutions

Next steps

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